Tag: storm

El NinoEl Nino - Series/Documentary 3 of 4
Looks at how our diverse wildlife has adapted to the huge swings in climate - the heartbreaking droughts and fires, which El Nino brings.

Southern Exposure Southern Exposure
Explores the four seasons in a year in southern Australia and how they are affected by the dramatic massing and shrinking of the polar ice-cap.

A MAJOR solar storm would not only damage Earth's infrastructure, it could also leave a legacy of radiation that keeps killing satellites for years.

When the sun belches a massive cloud of charged particles at Earth, it can damageMovie Camera our power grids and fry satellites' electronics. But that's not all. New calculations suggest that a solar megastorm could create a persistent radiation problem in low-Earth orbit, disabling satellites for up to a decade after the storm first hit.

Queensland is bracing itself for what could be one of its worst storms in its history, just over a fortnight after devastating floods claimed the lives of more than 30 people.
Tropical cyclone Yasi is expected to hit the north coast of the Sunshine State on Wednesday evening, with forecasters predicting 160mph putting it on a par with Hurricane Katrina.

Twin disasters - a tsunami and a volcano eruption - have hit Indonesia. At least 154 people have been killed in the tsunami, while more than 28 died when Mount Merapi erupted. Thousands were forced to flee and seek refuge in shelters. Scientists had warned that pressure building beneath the volcano's lava dome could trigger one of the most powerful blasts in years.

Vodafone and Research In Motion introduced the BlackBerry Storm 2 Smartphone for customers in 7 European countries as well as South Africa. The 2nd generation award-winning touch-screen smartphone, the BlackBerry Storm 2 significantly improves the BlackBerry touch-screen platform with new technology and new features to let customers stay easily connected to the people, places and things that matter most.

In the busy holiday gift buying period, customers in the UK and Ireland will be able to get the new BlackBerry smartphone first through Vodafone, and it will be offered by Vodafone in Germany, Netherlands and Spain. It will also be available in France, Italy and South Africa in time for Christmas.

MEXICO CITY, Nov. 7, 2009 (Reuters) Ida strengthened back into a tropical storm early on Saturday off Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and was moving north toward the Gulf of Mexico, where it could again become a hurricane.

The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Ida, which had weakened to a depression on Thursday, now carried maximum sustained winds of 60 mph/95 kph and was located about 255 miles/410 km southwest of Cozumel, Mexico. more...

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Be afraid, be very afraid (of imitations). The original and the best is back! Storms Fright Night launched at the Emporium two terrifying years ago and ghostly goings-on have haunted the hallowed halls ever since.

Prepare to be scared senseless by a spooky selection of Fright Night superstars past, present and future that will guarantee to send scream-inducing shivers coursing down your spine.

HAVE YOU SEEN HOW MUCH THE TICKETS ARE?

GALVESTON, Texas (CNN) -- Hurricane Ike's storm surge flooded Galveston's historic district early Saturday, sparked fires and knocked out power.

Heavy winds continued to pummel the coastal region more than four hours after the storm made landfall as a Category 2 storm. more...

The turbulent Atlantic storm season continues to wreak havoc in the Caribbean today after tropical storm Hanna passed over Haiti, causing flooding and mudslides that killed at least 60 people. "We are in a really catastrophic situation," the Haitian president, Rene Preval, told the Reuters news agency. "There are a lot of people on rooftops and there are prisoners that we cannot guard."